Month: August 2016

After Pat Gelsinger talked about Digital Transformation on Day One of VMworld 2016 and how VMware’s cloud strategy will help enterprise customers, Sanjay Poonen, Executive Vice President and General Manager, End-User Computing carried the theme further with VMware’s ‘Any Cloud, Any App, Any Device’ strategy and products that would enable the Digital Workspace with Unified Endpoint Management, Windows 10 Support and Enhanced Identity Management. […]

VMware kicked off VMworld 2016 in Las Vegas today. VMware CEO, Pat Gelsinger took the stage and welcomed over 20000 attendees. And in a nice gesture, Pat acknowledged the attendees who have never missed VMworld and announced they will receive free life time passes to the event. Gelsinger showed a Google trend chart that highlights ‘Digital Transformation’ as the top tech buzzword of […]

As VMware kicked off VMworld 2016 and unveiled Cloud Foundation and Cross-Cloud Architecture in a move to enable Digital Transformation, Nutanix which competes with VMware on heterogeneous cloud management also announced its furthering ambitions by acquiring PernixData, a data acceleration and analytics company and Calm.io a provider of DevOps automation technologies. Nutanix is undergoing a transformation from a hyperconverged infrastructure solutions provider to […]

If you are a thought leader in Internet of Things (IoT) and want to speak at the IoT Evolution Expo being held on February 7 – 10, 2017 at Fort Lauderdale, Florida then the timing is right now and hurry up as the deadline is September 16, 2016! The IoT Evolution Conference explores the relevant business and technical issues surrounding […]

Facebook is on a mission to provide Internet access to less privileged people across the globe. In a recent blog by Jay Parikh, Global Head of Engineering and Infrastructure, he announced that Facebook Connectivity Lab has completed the first full-scale test flight of Aquila, a high-altitude unmanned aircraft. Think of Aquila as a large drone that runs on solar power and […]

In its Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2016 Earnings report released on August 17th, Cisco confirmed there will be reduction in workforce but the number is lesser than the rumored 14000 jobs. Chuck Robbins Cisco’s new CEO is in the middle of an organizational transformation to position the company for its next growth phase and the job cuts are part of that initiative. […]

At the Intel IDF 2016 event in San Francisco, Kushagra Vaid, GM, Azure Cloud HW Engineering in conversation with Diane Bryant, Intel executive vice president and general manager of its Data Center Group said, “We have a very strong presence in the public cloud by virtue of Azure but we also have a very strong presence in the enterprise by virtue of Windows Server. So […]

On August 15th 2016, Google released Google Duo, a video calling app that would compete with Apple’s FaceTime and Facebook’s WhatsApp. Google Duo was first introduced at Google’s I/O developer conference in May 2016 along with Allo a messaging app. In a matter of days after its release the app has already reached the top of the charts in Google Play Store […]

The Intel Xeon processor is transforming – from being used for performance hungry IT applications to getting ready for Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI). At IDF 2016 day 2, Intel revealed the next generation of the Intel Xeon Phi processor family (code named Knights Mill) and said it is specifically designed for high-performance machine learning and AI […]

Intel kicked off its 2016 Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich delivered his keynote which covered Intel’s push for a Connected World with Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Krzanich talked about Merged Reality which is a new way of experiencing physical and virtual interactions and environments through a suite of n ext-generation sensing and digitizing technologies. Merged Reality […]